On Liberalism, Generosity, and Freedom

At some point during my BA at BYU-Idaho, I realized that whatever position was taken by all the conservatives surrounding me--on immigration, the Iraq war, torture, health care, "Right-to-Work" laws, Unions, etc--I disagreed with.  Almost every single issue.  Granted, southeast Idaho is so harshly conservative that even moderate Republicans get kinda weirded out by them; nevertheless, in a perverse sort of way, there was something clarifying, even refreshing, about the starkness of...